Justin Flitter

Planet 2010 is an expo, conference show casing New Zealands key companies, technology and experts in the tech and communications space

I'm here blogging and tweeting all day so follow us using the hashtag #planet2010

Feel free to tweet questions and if you're here be sure to hunt me down in the @Zendesk orange tee 

More to come - Buzz Aldrin is the Key Note speaker and about to come on stage.

Cheers

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Last night I was on the bus on my way to Queen st in Auckland thinking about finding a new place for Jen and I to live. We need a bigger place as we have been working from home so we don't have much of a lounge anymore.

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How do you collate your ideas? They come out of no where at random times of the day and night so having a clean way of harvesting and collecting them is vital.

I just use the iPhones notes and I just email myself updated copies once a week. 

You have Idea Banks for all your clients, projects, whatever. The ideas may not be right for now but in time you will know when to mention them to people who can help execute them.

It's important to collect your Ideas and save them, never delete them. Go through and read all your Idea Banks once a month to refresh yourself. Thats when you get those "oh yeah" moments, they make you think, take ideas in different directions and flesh out ones that could be useful right now. 

How do you collect up your ideas? Do you have an Ideas Bank?

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Greetings from sunny Sydney. Current location Danks Street Depot cafe in Sydney Airport

Last night was the 2nd Cloudcamp.org event for the Australasian 2010 series, mega road trip!

Last nights packed room at the National Innovation Centre was full of vendors, consultants, developers and other geeks discussing their way through the critical issues surrounding cloud computing.

Private vs Public, Architecture, Security, Databases, The future of the Cloud, Business models were just a few of the topics in the unconference sessions

One comment sung out load a clear to me from a consultant who said that he does not mention the 'cloud' to his clients, we get tied up in terminology and definitions when he just sells solutions.

What does it do? How does it work? What does it cost? Benefit vs cost vs alternative. Thats all thats important from the customers perspective

There is huge opportunity for businesses that mentor and consult companies through the process of migration to cloud based service, reducing the risk and providing support.

It was great to meet a few Zendesk customers too Xcentral and Field Connect app, it was great to hear their experience, ideas for new features, hearing the buzz and passion for the product from customers is hugely motivating.

Right so I had better rock over and check in. Then its off to Duty-free for some single malts 

By the way Sydney cafes need to pull finger and get wifi, its pathetic not being able to sit down for a coffee and not open the laptop and work. if you did have wifi people would stay longer and spend more money, think about that!

Cya

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We have been flat hunting for 2 months now. At first there were plenty of places available but 40 people waiting to view. 

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The Auckland Cloudcamp event on February 26th at the Owen Glenn Building, Auckland University was attended by a great selection of SaaS and Cloud product venders and thought leaders.

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From Drop Box

From Drop Box

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What's the one thing thats holding you or your business back from increased productivity, efficiency gains and and increase in revenue?

Well actually it's two things I think..

• ATTITUDE 

As soon as the shops start playing Christmas Carols everyone (except retail and hospitality) mentally turns off and starts winding down for the year. Actually this disease lasts almost two months as Kiwis and Australians go into a Summer hibernation. We are "working" or rather we are in the office but bugger all is actually happening. 

Managers are the key culprits but this change takes leadership. I reckon we are wasting away weeks and weeks a year talking, talking, talking with very little focus or objective or output. 

If we are ever to attempt to compete with other leading nations we must work smarter and be far more constructive and productive with our time

• BANDWIDTH

I know from experience that the faster my internet connection is the more productive I am. The less time I'm waiting for pages to load and refresh the better. Faster broadband for all households, schools, businesses and organisations is a critical weak point in New Zealand's infrastructure. Its been identified, we all know this, the government promises to take action but in my mind this is urgent, drastic action and investment is required to resolve this. 10 years to upgrade is too long.

Increased bandwidth will allow more people access to rich media, faster, we'll be able to create more rich media content promoting our services and knowledge to more people. 

Do you agree with me? Whats holding your company back from real growth?

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